The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-22

snOuld be wrapped in sheet saturated with
the disinfectant solution, made double
strength, and be buried at once
No public funeral should be held Of
person dying from this disease, or at any
house where IL has existed unless the house
has been thoroughly disinfected.
A person recovering from this disease
should remain isolated until the physician
in charge or health officer declares he is no
longer source OF contagion
The clothes worn by the patient should be
burned, II not too valuable, and II not
burned must be thoroughly disinfected be-
fore being worn again.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Typhoid fever, sometimes called 'enteric
fever" 'fall fever" etc, Is q common
disease Of frequent occurrence in our State.
1t Is especially disease of young adult life,
although no age Is exempt from IL. 1t at
tacks oil classes of society, being found
both In the mansion and in the hovel. 1t is
probably the most preventable Of all infec-
tious diseases, excepting, perhaps, small
pox. since the introduction of general vac
cination. In view of this fact, and that 1t is
the cause of so much sickness and death in
the State, it is hoped the following in
structions for its restriction and prevention
will be carefully considered and followed
by ALL
Node of Communications n-Typhoid fever Is
believed to be due to n specific cause, dis
ease germ given of by one sick with the
disease, and which may be transmitted to
others in various ways The poison is usually
received by drinking water contaminated by
discharges from the bowels of typhoid
fever patient This generally comes from
throwing these discharges into privy vaults
or faulty sewers which allow their contents
to filter through the ground into neghbor-
ing well or spring. 1t has been demon
strated that impurities may thus be carried
through porous soils for distances of one
hundred feet and more. Several outbreaks
of typhoid fever have occurred in cities from
the discharges having been thrown into the
river from which the city derived its water
supply. In some instances the disease is so
mild that the patient never goes to bed, and
may be even unaware of the nature of
his malady. His discharges, however,
are fully as dangerous as in more
serious cases, and unless properly
cared for, may be the cause Of many other
cases of the disease. Milk has frequently
conveyed the disease, either from being
diluted with water containing the typhoid
fever poison, or by being kept in a room in
which there is one sick with this disease;
in the latter case the disease germs arc
absorbed by the milk. 1t may be conveyed
by the clothing, especially by such as have
received the discharges of the patient
Laundresses, in washing such clothing,
have thus contracted the disease. In some
instances the poison seems to gain access to
the system by breathing it in; and the
gasses from q faulty or untrapped sewer,
which has received the discharges of
typhoid fever patient, may convey the
disease 1t is possible the poison may be
found in other discharges, but it is in the
stools of typhoid fever patient that the
special cause of this disease is usually found.
1t is not believed that filth of itself will
cause the disease, but it serves as u indus
(nest) in which the specific germ of the dis
ease lodges, lives and multiplies. Typhoid
fever is communicable, but is not considered
contagious.
The foregoing outline of the nature Of tho
disease and the manner of it's communica-
ton, will suggest the measures to be taken
for its prevention.
1t is of the first Importance that the stools
Of every person suffering with typhoid
fever be thoroughly dis infected and placed
where they can not possibly gain access to
the source of any drinking water. In cities
having sewers, they may, after disinfection,
be thrown into the water-closet, but they
should not be thrown into unsewered privy
vaults, but be buried in trenches dug in the
ground remote from any water supply. All
discharges from the bowels should be re-
ceived in u vessel containing quart or
more of the following solution and allowed
to remain therein for ut least thirty min
utes:
Solution No. f.-Dissolve chloride of lime,
of the best quality, in soft water, in the
proportion of four ounces to the gallon. II
the patient is unable to use vessel, re-
ceive the discharges on soft rags or
paper and burn them at once. All clothing
or bedding soiled by the patients dis
charges must be removed at once and
placed in boiling water to be boiled for half
an hour; or they may be immersed in the
following solution, allowing them to remain
for two hours, when they may be wrung
out and sent to the laundry to be thoroughly
boiled:
Solution No. 2.-Dissolve four ounces of
sulphate of zinc (white vitrioD and two
ounces of common salt, in one gallon of
water. ct would be better to boil the soiled
clothes, towels, ETC., in this solution.)
Nurses and attendants should observe
perfect cleanliness, and their hands should
be frequently bathed in the solution No. g.
Their meals should be prepared and eaten
In room separate from the patients.
Typhoid fever is not supposed to be con-
tagious, i. e., not transmitted directly from
one person to another, hence the strict iso-
lation of one sick with the disease is not
necessary, but needless visits Of friends
should be discouraged.
The body of one dead from this disease
should be wrapped in sheet saturated with
solution No. l or No. 2, made double
strength, and be buried as soon as possible
After death, or recovery from the disease,
the room which the patient has occupied,
with all its contents, should be exposed to
the fumes Of burning sulphur. To fumi-
gate a room proceed as follows:
Arrange the contents of the room so as
to expose the greatest possible amount of
surface to the action of the disinfectant.
Clothing bed covers, and similar articles
should be hung up in the room. Close the
room as completely as possible, stopping all
openings through which the gas might es-
cape. Leave open the doors of communi-
eating closets. For room about ten feet
square, take three pounds of sulphur,
broken into small fragments; for larger
rooms, use proportionately larger amount.
Place it in an iron pan, and to
avoid danger from fire, support the pan on
bricks placed in tub containing a few
inches Of water. Moisten the sulphur with
alcohol and set it atire, being careful not to
| breathe the fumes of the burning sulphur,
When certain the sulphur Is burning well,
leave the room, close the door, and allow
the room to be tightly closed for twenty
four hours. Afterwards it must be
thoroughly aired, aud should not be used
for several days.
Immediately on the appearance Of Typhoid
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